Using Transition Metal Oxide, Sulfide, Or Salt Patents (Class 585/661)
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Patent number: 11427763Abstract: The present invention provides a pyrolysis tube for manufacturing olefin which tube can improve a yield of olefin in a pyrolysis reaction of a hydrocarbon raw material. The pyrolysis tube (1A) for manufacturing olefin includes a tubular base material (2) made of a heat resistant metal material and a dehydrogenating catalyst (4A) which is supported on an inner surface of the tubular base material (2).Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2017Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Otsubo, Kunihide Hashimoto, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Yasushi Sekine
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Patent number: 11104575Abstract: The catalyst in this present application includes a support and an active component dispersed on/in the support; wherein the support is at least one selected from inorganic oxides and the support contains macropores and mesopores; and the active component includes an active element, and the active element contains an iron group element. As a high temperature stable catalyst for methane reforming with carbon dioxide, the catalyst can be used to produce syngas, realizing the emission reduction and recycling utilization of carbon dioxide. Under atmospheric pressure and at 800° C., the supported metal catalyst with hierarchical pores shows excellent catalytic performance. In addition to high activity and good selectivity, the catalyst has high stability, high resistance to sintering and carbon deposition.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: FUJIAN INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCEInventors: Yumin Chen, Guocong Guo, Zhongning Xu, Zhiqiao Wang, Qingsong Chen, Hongzi Tan
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Patent number: 10150715Abstract: Process for dehydrogenation of alkanesor alkylbenzenes by using metal sulfide catalyst under the presence of small amounts of hydrogen sulfide.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/SInventors: Poul Erik Højlund Nielsen, John Bøgild Hansen
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Patent number: 9238600Abstract: A process for improving the yield of ethylene and propylene from a light naphtha feedstock includes obtaining light naphtha feedstock from a primary cracking zone having a cracking catalyst. The light naphtha feedstock is contacted with an olefin catalyst in an olefin producing zone to produce an ethylene- and propylene-rich stream. After reacting with the olefin catalyst, the ethylene- and propylene-rich stream is separated from the olefin catalyst from in a separator zone. At least a portion of the olefin catalyst is regenerated by combusting coke deposited on a surface of the olefin catalyst in an oxygen-containing environment, and at least a portion of the olefin catalyst is heated. These portions could be the same one or they could be different. In some embodiments, at least a portion of the olefin catalyst could be neither regenerated nor heated. The olefin catalyst is returned to the olefin producing zone.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: David A. Wegerer, Brian W. Hedrick, Zhihao Fei, Daniel N. Myers, Vincenza Myers, Paolo Palmas, Laura E. Leonard
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Patent number: 9120714Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing an alkene by non-oxidative dehydrogenation of an alkane, comprising contacting a feed stream comprising the alkane with a catalyst composition comprising an unsupported catalyst comprising ZrV2O7 at a temperature of 400 to 600° C.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Kartick Chandra Mondal, Patel Himanshu
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Publication number: 20150073185Abstract: Provided is a Group 9 novel metal catalyst complex further comprising a ketone-containing cocatalyst. The metal catalyst complex is useful in generating olefins from alkanes with great efficiency. In one embodiment, provided is an iridium catalyst complex useful in the dehydrogenation of alkanes comprising a ketone-containing cocatalyst and iridium complexed with a tridentate ligand. Also provided is a novel dehydrogenation method which utilizes the catalyst composition. In other embodiments, a novel process for preparing oligomers from alkanes utilizing the catalyst composition is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicants: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Alan Stuart Goldman, Robert Timothy Stibrany, Robert J. Saxton, Oleg MIRONOV
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Publication number: 20150018593Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst characterized in that it comprises a) at least one metal compound selected from a group consisting of metal carbide, -nitride, -silicide, -phosphide and -sulfide or mixtures thereof, wherein the metal is selected from a group consisting of molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum, vanadium, titanium, niobium, lanthanum and chromium, and b) at least one non-Brønsted-acidic binder selected from a group consisting of AlPO4, Bentonite, AlN and N4Si3. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process or a device for the preparation of olefins from C2-, C3- or C4-alkanes using the catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventor: Christian Trischler
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Patent number: 8927799Abstract: A process for the production of propylene from a propane rich hydrocarbon source is presented. The process converts a propane rich stream and uses less equipment and energy for the separation and production of propylene. The process uses a non-noble metal catalyst and utilizes a continuous reactor-regeneration system to keep the process on line for longer periods between maintenance.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2010Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: David N. Myers, Daniel N. Myers, Joseph E. Zimmermann
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Patent number: 8859837Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing lower olefinic hydrocarbons by oxidative dehydrogenation of paraffinic lower hydrocarbons. More particularly the present invention provides a process for converting a feedstream comprising a paraffinic lower hydrocarbon and carbon dioxide to a product stream comprising an olefinic lower hydrocarbon and synthesis gas in the presence of the catalyst composition La—Mn/inert support, wherein said catalyst composition comprises 1-10 mass % lanthanum and 1-10 mass % manganese and optionally 0.3-3 mass % alkali metal.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2009Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Saudi Basic Industries CorporationInventors: Aggadin Kh. Mamedov, Ali S. Al-Khuraimi
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Publication number: 20140296605Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst composition suitable for the non-oxidative dehydrogenation of alkanes having 2-8 carbon atoms comprising silico-zinc aluminate, wherein the relative molar ratios of the elements comprised in said composition are represented by SixZn1-xAl2O4, wherein x stands for a number in the range from 0.003 to 0.76. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of said catalyst composition, to a process for the non-oxidative dehydrogenation of alkanes, preferably isobutane using said catalyst and to the use of said catalyst in a process for the non-oxidative dehydrogenation of alkanes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Subhash Chandra Laha, Antonisamy Selvanathan, Sandeep Negi
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Publication number: 20140296606Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst bed system including a horizontal catalyst bed having a mixture of at least one catalytic material and at least one first inert material, a predetermined volume of at least one second inert material arranged upstream of the catalyst bed, wherein the volume of the reactor above the catalyst bed system is not filled by any solid material (empty space). The volume of the second inert material and the volume of the reactor above the second inert material (empty space) is between 0.04 and 0.73, preferably between 0.06 and 0.3, most preferably between 0.09 and 0.2. The present invention relates also to a dehydrogenation process using this catalyst bed system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Kristof Weyne, Guhan Mathivanan
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Patent number: 8846996Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the manufacture of an efficient and robust catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of paraffins to olefins, preferably lower C2-4 paraffins. The present invention provides a process for the preparation of an oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst of C2-4 paraffins to olefins comprising comminuting: from 10 to 99 weight % of a mixed oxide catalyst of the formula VxMoyNbzTemMenOp, wherein Me is a metal selected from the group consisting of Ta, Ti, W, Hf, Zr, Sb and mixtures thereof; with from 90 to 1 weight % of an inert matrix selected from oxides of titanium, zirconia, aluminum, magnesium, yttria, lantana, silica and their mixed compositions or a carbon matrix to produce particles having a size from 1 to 100 microns and forming the resulting particles into pellets having a size from 0.1 to 2 mm.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2010Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Nova Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Leonid Modestovich Kustov, Aleksey Victorovich Kucherov, Elena Dmitrievna Finashina, Tatyana Nikolaevna Kucherova, Vera Ilynichna Isaeva, Andrzej Krzywicki, Haiyong Cai
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Publication number: 20140275686Abstract: The present invention relates generally to catalysts and methods for use in olefin production. More particularly, the present invention relates to novel amorphously supported single-center, Lewis acid metal ions and use of the same as catalysts.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventor: Uchicago Argonne, LLC
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Patent number: 8802912Abstract: The present invention provides a method of increasing stability of a catalyst used in a dehydrogenation process. The method includes storing fresh catalyst in a reduction zone, passing a gas through the reduction zone, introducing hydrocarbons and hydrogen gas into a reactor positioned downstream from the reduction zone to facilitate a dehydrogenation reaction, and replenishing spent catalyst in the reactor with fresh catalyst from the reduction zone. The gas has a moisture content at or below about 4000 ppmv and a temperature at or below about 290° C. The reactor includes catalyst for increasing the rate of the dehydrogenation reaction. The moisture content of the gas may be reduced to at or below about 4000 ppmv by passing the gas through a drier or by using an inert gas stream. The temperature of the gas may also be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2009Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Jeffery Pieper, Wei Pan, Dean Rende, Gary Malott
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Patent number: 8785343Abstract: This invention relates to a mesoporous carbon supported copper based catalyst comprising mesoporous carbon, a copper component and an auxiliary element supported on said mesoporous carbon, production and use thereof. The catalyst is cheap in cost, friendly to the environment, and satisfactory in high temperature resistance to sintering, with a highly improved and a relatively stable catalytic activity.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignees: China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jingwei Liu, Zezhuang Li, Shaohui Chen, Aiwu Yang, Jiye Bai, Lijuan Liu, Yingwu Wang
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Publication number: 20140128653Abstract: The present invention provides a process and catalyst for the direct and selective conversion of ethane to ethylene. The process provides a direct single step vapor phase selective dehydrogenation/oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane to ethylene over Mo supported nanocrystalline TiO2. The process provides ethane conversion of 65-96% and selectivity of ethylene up to 100%. The process may be conducted in the presence or absence of oxygen.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCHInventors: RAJARAM BAL, BIPUL SARKAR, RAJIB KUMAR SINGHA, CHANDRASHEKAR PENDEM, SHUBHRA ACHARYYA SHANKHA, SHILPI GHOSH
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Patent number: 8669406Abstract: A process for the dehydrogenation of a paraffinic hydrocarbon compound, such as an alkane or alkylaromatic hydrocarbon compound to produce an unsaturated hydrocarbon compound, such as an olefin or vinyl aromatic compound or mixture thereof, in which a dehydrogenation catalyst contacts gaseous reactant hydrocarbons in a reactor at dehydrogenation conditions.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2012Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Inventors: Matthew T. Pretz, Susan B. Domke, William M. Castor, Simon J. Hamper
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Patent number: 8653317Abstract: A supported catalyst and process for dehydrogenating a hydrocarbon, the catalyst comprising a first component selected from the group consisting of tin, germanium, lead, indium, gallium, thallium, and compounds thereof; a second component selected from the group consisting of metals of Group 8 of the Periodic Table of the Elements and compounds thereof, and a support comprising alumina in the gamma crystalline form. The catalysts are especially active and efficient when employed in concurrent flow in a dehydrogenation reactor having an average contact time between the hydrocarbon and catalyst of from 0.5 to 10 seconds.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2010Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Inventors: Richard A. Pierce, Lin Luo, Michael M. Olken, Susan Domke, Howard W. Clark
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Patent number: 8642825Abstract: The present invention provides a continuous process for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane to ethylene using a mixed oxide catalyst supported onto a ceramic membrane by supplying an oxygen containing gas (air or pure oxygen) and pure ethane to the opposite sides of the membrane, so that the paraffin and the oxygen do not directly mix in the reactor.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Nova Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Leonid Modestovich Kustov, Aleksey Victorovich Kucherov, Elena Dmitrievna Finashina, Vasily Simanzhenkov, Andrzej Krzywicki
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Patent number: 8624074Abstract: A process for the dehydrogenation of paraffins is presented. The process utilizes a rapid recycling of dehydrogenation catalyst between the dehydrogenation reactor and the catalyst regeneration unit. The process comprises preheating a combined hydrogen and paraffin hydrocarbon feedstream and passing the combined stream to a dehydrogenation reactor. The hydrocarbon feedstream and the catalyst pass through the reactor at a rate to limit the average residence time of the catalyst in the reactor. The catalyst is cycled to a regeneration unit, and passed through the regeneration unit to limit the average residence time of the catalyst in the regeneration unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Gavin P. Towler, Cynthia K. Zimmerman
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Publication number: 20130324760Abstract: A method of crystallizing a crystalline molecular sieve having a pore size in the range of from about 2 to about 19 ?, said method comprising the steps of (a) providing a mixture comprising at least one source of ions of tetravalent element (Y), at least one hydroxide source (OH?), and water, said mixture having a solid-content in the range of from about 15 wt. % to about 50 wt. %; and (b) treating said mixture to form the desired crystalline molecular sieve with stirring at crystallization conditions sufficient to obtain a weight hourly throughput from about 0.005 to about 1 hr?1, wherein said crystallization conditions comprise a temperature in the range of from about 200° C. to about 500° C. and a crystallization time less than 100 hr.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Inventors: Ivy D. Johnson, Wenyih Frank Lai
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Publication number: 20130317273Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing an alkene by non-oxidative dehydrogenation of an alkane, comprising contacting a feed stream comprising the alkane with a catalyst composition comprising an unsupported catalyst comprising ZrV2O7 at a temperature of 400 to 600° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Kartick Chandra Mondal, Patel Himanshu
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Patent number: 8552237Abstract: A dehydrogenation catalyst is described that comprises an iron oxide, an alkali metal or compound thereof, and rhenium or a compound thereof. A process for preparing a dehydrogenation catalyst comprising preparing a mixture of iron oxide, an alkali metal or compound thereof, and rhenium or a compound thereof is also described. Additionally, a dehydrogenation process using the catalyst and a process for preparing polymers are described.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2012Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: BASF CorporationInventor: Ruth Mary Kowaleski
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Publication number: 20130253249Abstract: A method of dehydrogenating a hydrocarbon, especially an alkane, to form an unsaturated compound, especially an alkene, includes contacting the alkane with a catalyst including a form of carbon which is catalytically active for the dehydrogenation reaction. The catalyst may be formed by passing a hydrocarbon over a catalyst precursor at an elevated temperature for sufficient time to form the active carbon phase, characterized in that the catalyst precursor includes less than 0.1% of a transition metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANYInventor: Xavier Elie Baucherel
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Patent number: 8524969Abstract: A method for the dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons to alkenes, such as n-pentene to piperylene and n-butane to butadiene at pressures less than atmospheric utilizing a dehydrogenation catalyst are disclosed. Embodiments involve operating the dehydrogenation reactor at a pressure of 1,000 mbar or less.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2009Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Fina Technology, Inc.Inventors: James Butler, Olga Khabashesku, James T. Merrill
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Patent number: 8519210Abstract: A process for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane is disclosed. The process may include: contacting an ethane feed and an oxygen-containing gas in the presence of an oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst in an oxidative dehydrogenation reaction zone under conditions to oxidatively dehydrogenate at least a portion of the ethane to produce a product stream comprising ethylene, carbon oxides, water, and unreacted oxygen and ethane, wherein an oxygen concentration in the product stream is at least 0.1 mol %; contacting the product stream with an oxygen elimination catalyst in an oxygen elimination reaction zone to combust at least a portion of the oxygen; recovering from the oxygen elimination reaction zone an effluent having a reduced oxygen content; separating water from the effluent; separating carbon oxides and any non-condensable gas(es) from the ethylene and the unreacted ethane; and separating the ethylene from the unreacted ethane.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2009Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Lummus Technology Inc.Inventors: Stephen Craig Arnold, Anne Mae Gaffney, Ruozhi Song, Chuen Yuan Yeh
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Publication number: 20130165729Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst composition suitable for the dehydrogenation of alkanes having 2-8 carbon atoms comprising zinc and/or manganese aluminate, optionally further comprising sodium (Na), potassium (K), caesium (Cs), rubidium (Rb), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), gallium (Ga), germanium (Ge),tin (Sn), copper (Cu), zirconium (Zr), cobalt (Co), tungsten (W) or mixtures thereof, wherein said catalyst composition preferably is essentially platinum free. Furthermore, a method for preparing said catalyst composition and a process for dehydrogenating alkanes having 2-8 carbon atoms, preferably isobutane, comprising contacting the said catalyst composition with said alkanes is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventor: Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
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Publication number: 20130158322Abstract: Nanowires useful as heterogeneous catalysts are provided. The nanowire catalysts are prepared by polymer templated methods and are useful in a variety of catalytic reactions, for example, the oxidative coupling of methane to ethane and/or ethylene. Related methods for use and manufacture of the same are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2012Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: SILURIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Siluria Technologies, Inc.
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Publication number: 20130131418Abstract: This invention relates to a mesoporous carbon supported copper based catalyst comprising mesoporous carbon, a copper component and an auxiliary element supported on said mesoporous carbon, production and use thereof. The catalyst is cheap in cost, friendly to the environment, and satisfactory in high temperature resistance to sintering, with a highly improved and a relatively stable catalytic activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2012Publication date: May 23, 2013Inventors: Jingwei LIU, Zezhuang Li, Shaohui Chen, Aiwu Yang, Jiye Bai, Lijuan Liu, Yingwu Wang
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Patent number: 8431761Abstract: A method for obtaining an olefin is disclosed, the method comprising subjecting a paraffin to dehydrogenation in the absence of oxygen and in the presence of a catalyst comprising a crystalline substrate, to obtain an olefin. The catalyst includes an inert stabilizing agent for maintaining the catalyst crystal structure. The catalyst may be regenerated by being subjected, in air, to a temperature between about 550° C. and about 750° C., for a period of time between about 15 minutes and about 4 hours.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Wei Pan, Stephen M. Casey, Bryan K. Glover, Feng Xu
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Publication number: 20130006030Abstract: The oxidative dehydrogenation of propane provides a highly selective catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propylene, and a process for preparing the catalyst. The catalyst is a mixed metal oxides catalyst of the general formula MoaVbOx, where the molar ratio of molybdenum to vanadium is between 1:1 and 9:1 (a:b is between 0.5:0.5 and 0.9:0.1) and x is determined according to the oxidation state of the cations present. The catalyst is prepared by mixing the metals by sol-gel technique, heating the gel to dry the mixed oxides, further heating the dried product to induce auto-combustion, washing the product with isopropyl alcohol, and drying with a supercritical CO2 dryer. Oxidative dehydrogenation is carried out by contacting a stream of propane gas with the bulk mixed metal oxides catalyst at a temperature between 350° C. and 550° C. Propylene selectivity of 100% is reached at conversion rates between 1.9% and 4.8%.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2011Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALSInventors: SHAKEEL AHMED, HASSAN S. ALASIRI, FAIZUR RAHMAN, ADNAN M.J. AL-AMER
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Publication number: 20120136191Abstract: The invention is a method of dehydrogenating a hydrocarbon, especially an alkane, to form an unsaturated compound, especially an alkene, by contacting the alkane with a catalyst comprising a form of carbon which is catalytically active for the dehydrogenation reaction. The catalyst may be formed by passing a hydrocarbon over a metal compound at a temperature greater than 650° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicants: CAMBRIDGE ENTERPRISE LTD., JOHNSON MATTHEY PLCInventors: Edmund Hugh Stitt, Michael John Watson, Lynn Gladden, James McGregor
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Publication number: 20120016171Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the manufacture of an efficient and robust catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of paraffins to olefins, preferably lower C2-4 paraffins. The present invention provides a process for the preparation of an oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst of C2-4 paraffins to olefins comprising comminuting: from 10 to 99 weight % of a mixed oxide catalyst of the formula VxMoyNbzTemMenOp, wherein Me is a metal selected from the group consisting of Ta, Ti, W, Hf, Zr, Sb and mixtures thereof; with from 90 to 1 weight % of an inert matrix selected from oxides of titanium, zirconia, aluminum, magnesium, yttria, lantana, silica and their mixed compositions or a carbon matrix to produce particles having a size from 1 to 100 microns and forming the resulting particles into pellets having a size from 0.1 to 2 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: Nova Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventors: Leonid Modestovich Kustov, Aleksey Victorovich Kucherov, Elena Dmitrievna Finashina, Tatyana Nikolaevna Kucherova, Vera Ilynichna Isaeva, Andrzej Krzywicki, Haiyong Cai
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Publication number: 20110230698Abstract: A process for the dehydrogenation of paraffins is presented. The process utilizes a rapid recycling of dehydrogenation catalyst between the dehydrogenation reactor and the catalyst regeneration unit. The process comprises preheating a combined hydrogen and paraffin hydrocarbon feedstream and passing the combined stream to a dehydrogenation reactor. The hydrocarbon feedstream and the catalyst pass through the reactor at a rate to limit the average residence time of the catalyst in the reactor. The catalyst is cycled to a regeneration unit, and passed through the regeneration unit to limit the average residence time of the catalyst in the regeneration unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2010Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: UOP LLCInventors: Gavin P. Towler, Cynthia K. Zimmerman
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Patent number: 7906699Abstract: A method for producing a mixture of ethylene and carbon monoxide by contacting ethane and an oxygen source at a temperature of at least 500° C. to produce ethylene and carbon monoxide. A method for producing an alkyl propionate by steps of: (a) contacting ethane and an oxygen source at a temperature of at least 500° C. to produce ethylene; (b) contacting an alcohol, ethylene and carbon monoxide with an ethylene carbonylation catalyst to produce the alkyl propionate; and (c) separating the alkyl propionate from byproducts and starting materials. The method further comprises condensing the alkyl propionate with formaldehyde to produce an alkyl methacrylate.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2008Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Rohm and Haas CompanyInventors: Abraham Benderly, Scott Han, Mark Anthony Silvano, Donald Lee Zolotorofe
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Patent number: 7902416Abstract: An improved process and system for the endothermic dehydrogenation of an alkane stream is described. The process and system of the present invention comprise a back-mixed fluidized bed reactor. The alkane stream is dehydrogenated in a single reactor stage by contacting the alkane stream with a back-mixed fluidized bed of catalyst. Deactivated catalyst is withdrawn from the back-mixed fluidized reactor and heated to produce hot regenerated catalyst. The hot regenerated catalyst is returned to the back-mixed fluidized bed reactor at a rate sufficient to maintain the back-mixed fluidized bed reactor at substantially isothermal conditions.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2007Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Bryan K. Glover, Julie A. Zarraga, Michael A. Schultz
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Patent number: 7816576Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing unsaturated hydrocarbons. According to said method, in a first step, a hydrocarbon, especially a mixture which contains alkanes, essentially no water, and can contain water vapour, is continuously guided through a first catalyst bed provided with standard dehydration conditions. Liquid water, water vapour and a gas containing oxygen are then added to the reaction mixture obtained in the first step and, in a second step, the reaction mixture obtained is then continuously guided through another catalyst bed for oxidising hydrogen and for further dehydrating hydrocarbons. The first catalyst bed can be heated and the heating in the first step is then preferably regulated in such a way that an essentially isothermic operating mode is created.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2003Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: UHDE GmbHInventors: Natarajan Thiagarajan, Max Heinritz-Adrian, Sascha Wenzel, Johannes Menzel
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Publication number: 20100234660Abstract: The invention relates to a method for dehydrating alkanes, wherein the alkane is guided in a reactor for the dehydrogenation of alkanes via a catalyst, and the process may be carried out adiabatically or non-adiabatically, and the catalyst for dehydration can be regenerated after the reaction phase by means of transferring a gas, wherein said gas is guided via the catalyst after a short rinsing phase using water vapor, and said regeneration gas consists of a gas containing oxygen and of steam, and after regeneration the catalyst is freed of the gas containing oxygen by transferring steam, wherein the duration of the transfer of a gas containing oxygen is significantly reduced as compared to common methods and represents 70% or less of the total regeneration time, and the catalyst has an increased selectivity for forming alkene by means of carrying out the regeneration at a constant activity, and the catalyst is comprised of a metal of the group of platinum metals or group VIB of the periodic table of the elemType: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2008Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: UHDE GMBHInventors: Helmut Gehrke, Max Heinritz-Adrian, Muhammad Iqbal Mian, Oliver Noll, Rolf Schwass, Sascha Wenzel
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Patent number: 7795483Abstract: The present invention is a process for producing phenyl-alkanes by paraffin adsorptive separation followed by paraffin dehydrogenation and then by alkylation of a phenyl compound by a lightly branched olefin. The adsorptive separation step employs a silicalite adsorbent and, as the desorbent, a C5-C8 linear paraffin, a C5-C8 cycloparaffin, a branched paraffin such as isooctane, or mixtures thereof. The effluent of the alkylation zone comprises paraffins that are recycled to the adsorptive separation step or to the dehydrogenation step. This invention is also a process that that sulfonates phenyl-alkanes having lightly branched aliphatic alkyl groups that to produce modified alkylbenzene sulfonates. In addition, this invention is the compositions produced by these processes, which can be used as detergents having improved cleaning effectiveness in hard and/or cold water while also having biodegradability comparable to that of linear alkylbenzene sulfonates, as lubricants, and as lubricant additives.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2003Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Santi Kulprathipanja, Richard E. Marinangeli, Stephen W. Sohn, Thomas R. Fritsch, R. Joe Lawson
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Patent number: 7754935Abstract: Methods of dehydrogenating hydrocarbons to yield unsaturated compounds are described. Reactor configurations useful for dehydrogenation are also described. Hydrocarbons can be dehydrogenated, for relatively long periods of time-on-stream, in a reaction chamber having a dimension of 2 mm or less to produce H2 and an olefin. Techniques have been developed that reduce coke and allow stable, relatively long-term operation in small reactors.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2008Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: VelocysInventors: John H. Brophy, Gary Roberts, G. Bradley Chadwell, Matthew B. Schmidt, Anna Lee Tonkovich
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Publication number: 20100087694Abstract: A high cerium-containing dehydrogenation catalyst of alkyl aromatic compounds used in industrial scale, including iron oxide and potassium oxide, having improved physical strength of catalyst pellets, and a method for producing the catalyst, and the dehydrogenation method using the catalyst are disclosed. In producing high cerium-containing pellets by using a dehydrogenation catalyst including iron oxide and potassium oxide, cerium carbonate hydroxide or a mixture of cerium carbonate hydroxide and other cerium compounds is used as a cerium source to produce catalytic pellets having improved physical strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2008Publication date: April 8, 2010Applicant: SUED-CHEMME CATALYST JAPAN, INCInventor: Yuji Mishima
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Patent number: 7678956Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing propylene during which a first gas mixture, which is technically free of oxygen but contains propane, water vapor and hydrogen, and which has a temperature of at least 400° C., is led into a reaction device having at least one catalyst bed as well as usual dehydration conditions. Another gas mixture, which contains propane and oxygen and which can also contain ammonia, the propane content exceeding the oxygen content, is led into the same reaction device in which it reacts with the first gas mixture while forming propylene, water vapor and hydrogen, and the formed gas mixture containing propylene, water vapor and hydrogen is drawn out of the reaction device.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2005Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Uhde GmbHInventor: Max Heinritz-Adrian
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Patent number: 7674944Abstract: Catalysts and methods for alkane oxydehydrogenation are disclosed. The catalysts of the invention generally comprise (i) nickel or a nickel-containing compound and (ii) at least one or more of titanium (Ti), tantalum (Ta), niobium (Nb), hafnium (Hf), tungsten (W), yttrium (Y), zinc (Zn), zirconium (Zr), or aluminum (Al), or a compound containing one or more of such element(s). In preferred embodiments, the catalyst is a supported catalyst, the alkane is selected from the group consisting of ethane, propane, isobutane, n-butane and ethyl chloride, molecular oxygen is co-fed with the alkane to a reaction zone maintained at a temperature ranging from about 250° C. to about 350° C., and the ethane is oxidatively dehydrogenated to form the corresponding alkene with an alkane conversion of at least about 10% and an alkene selectivity of at least about 70%.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2007Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Celanese International CorporationInventor: Yumin Liu
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Patent number: 7663011Abstract: A process for treating organic compounds includes providing a composition which includes a substantially mesoporous structure of refractory oxide containing at least 97% by volume of pores having a pore size ranging from about 15 ? to about 30 ? and having a micropore volume of at least about 0.01 cc/g, wherein the mesoporous structure has incorporated therewith at least about 0.02% by weight of at least one catalytically and/or chemically active heteroatom selected from the group consisting of Al, Ti, V, Cr, Zn, Fe, Sn, Mo, Ga, Ni, Co, In, Zr, Mn, Cu, Mg, Pd, Pt and W, and the catalyst has an X-ray diffraction pattern with one peak at 0.3° to about 3.5° at 2 theta (?). The catalyst is contacted with an organic feed under reaction conditions wherein the treating process is selected from alkylation, acylation, oligomerization, selective oxidation, hydrotreating, isomerization, demetalation, catalytic dewaxing, hydroxylation, hydrogenation, ammoximation, isomerization, dehydrogenation, cracking and adsorption.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2005Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Lummus Technology Inc.Inventors: Zhiping Shan, Jacobus Cornelis Jansen, Chuen Y. Yeh, Philip J. Angevine, Thomas Maschmeyer, Mohamed S. Hamdy
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Publication number: 20100022817Abstract: A method for the dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons to alkenes, such as n-pentene to piperylene and n-butane to butadiene at pressures less than atmospheric utilizing a dehydrogenation catalyst are disclosed. Embodiments involve operating the dehydrogenation reactor at a pressure of 1,000 mbar or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2009Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: Fina Technology, Inc.Inventors: James Butler, Olga Khabashesku
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Publication number: 20100022816Abstract: A method for the dehydrogenation of isoamylene to isoprene at pressures less than atmospheric utilizing a dehydrogenation catalyst is disclosed. Embodiments involve operating the dehydrogenation reactor at a pressure of 1,000 mbar or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2008Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: Fina Technology, Inc.Inventor: James T. Merrill
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Publication number: 20090325784Abstract: A method for obtaining an olefin is disclosed, the method comprising subjecting a paraffin to dehydrogenation in the absence of oxygen and in the presence of a catalyst comprising a crystalline substrate, to obtain an olefin. The catalyst includes an inert stabilizing agent for maintaining the catalyst crystal structure. The catalyst may be regenerated by being subjected, in air, to a temperature between about 550° C. and about 750° C, for a period of time between about 15 minutes and about 4 hours.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventors: Wei Pan, Stephen M. Casey, Bryan K. Glover, Feng Xu
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Publication number: 20090292153Abstract: Lower paraffins may be oxidatively dehydrogenated in the presence of an oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst and one or more reducible metal oxides selected from the group consisting of NiO, Ce2O3, Fe2O3, TiO2, Cr2O3, V2O5, WO3, and mixtures thereof optionally with alumina may be dehydrogenated (regenerated) under milder conditions in a safe manner with the oxygen being provided by the metal oxides rather than direct addition of oxygen to the reactor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2009Publication date: November 26, 2009Inventors: Haiyong Cai, Andrzej Krzywicki
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Patent number: 7595427Abstract: Process for production of styrene by dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene in a reactor system comprising a dehydrogenation reactor and a fast riser catalyst regenerator.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2004Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: Snamprogetti S.p.A.Inventors: Domenico Sanfilippo, Ivano Miracca, Guido Capone, Vincenzino Fantinuoli
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Patent number: 7518027Abstract: A process for the production of a mono-olefin from a feedstock comprising a paraffinic hydrocabon which process comprises a) partially combusting at a pressure of at least (15) barg a mixture of the hydrocarbon feed and a molecular oxygen-containing gas in contact with a catalyst capable of supporting combustion beyond the normal fuel rich limit of flammability where they are reacted to form a product comprising one or more mono-olefin(s), carbon monoxide and hydrogen and b) recovering the one or more olefin(s).Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2003Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: Innovene Europe LimitedInventors: Andrew Lindsay Burns, David Charles Griffiths, William Terence Woodfin